Lectures on the English Comic WritersDoubleday, 1960 - 239 oldal |
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34. oldal
... moral philosophy is natural history . He makes an ass bray wisdom , and a frog croak humanity . The store of moral truth , and the fund of invention in exhibit- ing it in eternal forms , palpable and intelligible , and delightful to ...
... moral philosophy is natural history . He makes an ass bray wisdom , and a frog croak humanity . The store of moral truth , and the fund of invention in exhibit- ing it in eternal forms , palpable and intelligible , and delightful to ...
141. oldal
... moral dissertations and critical reasonings , by which I confess myself less edified than by other things , which are thought more lightly of . Systems and opinions change , but nature is always true . It is the moral and didactic tone ...
... moral dissertations and critical reasonings , by which I confess myself less edified than by other things , which are thought more lightly of . Systems and opinions change , but nature is always true . It is the moral and didactic tone ...
186. oldal
... moral rectitude . If this principle is true , then the system is true : but I think that Mr. God- win's book has done more than any thing else to overturn the sufficiency of this principle by abstracting , in a strict meta- physical ...
... moral rectitude . If this principle is true , then the system is true : but I think that Mr. God- win's book has done more than any thing else to overturn the sufficiency of this principle by abstracting , in a strict meta- physical ...
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